Our Responsibility Toward God

We agree with the Westminster Shorter
Catechism that “Man’s primary purpose (‘chief end’) is to
glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.” We
accomplish this responsibility toward God first and
foremost by loving Him. When we truly love Him above all else,
we will give Him our unquestioning obedience in all
things. He will be glorified by our love and obedience.

When a scribe asked Yeshua, “Which is the
most important mitzvah [commandment] of them all?” Yeshua
answered, “The most important is, ‘Sh'ma Yisra'el, ADONAI
Eloheinu, ADONAI echad [Hear, O Isra'el,
the LORD our God, the LORD
is one], and you are to love ADONAI your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
understanding and with all your strength.’ The second is this:
‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other
mitzvah greater than these.” (Mark
12:28-31 CJB)

Anyone who does not love God as
Yeshua commanded is under God’s divine curse. “If
anyone does not love the Lord, a curse on him! Marana, ta! [Our
Lord, come!]” (1 Cor.
16:22 CJB)

The Bible says that Yeshua HaMashiach became
obedient to Torah so that the Gentiles would glorify God.
“For I say that the Messiah became a servant of the Jewish
people in order to show God’s truthfulness by making good his
promises to the Patriarchs, and in order to show his mercy by
causing the Gentiles to glorify God — as it is written in the
Tanakh, ‘Because of this I will acknowledge you among the
Gentiles and sing praise to your name.’” (Rom.
15:8-9 CJB) We believe that because Yeshua was obedient to
Torah, and we claim that we follow Him, then we are likewise
called to be obedient to Torah.

The Bible says that because He has bought us
out of bondage to sin, we live to glorify Him. “… for you were
bought at a price. So use your bodies to glorify God.” (1 Cor.
6:20 CJB)

Our Responsibility Toward Our Family

Because God created the family
millennia before He created His Miqra, we believe that our
responsibility toward our family comes second only to our
responsibility toward our God. Yeshua set this
model before us in that as He hung dying on Calvary’s cross, He
committed the care of His mother into the hands of the beloved
Disciple. God’s Torah, which our Lord declared as
unchangeable, provides for strong family bonds and
responsibilities, and our Lord taught that the man who fails to
care for his family is worse than an infidel.

Concerning relationships within the Family:

Rabbi Sha'ul taught that Yeshua is the
head of the husband and the husband is to be subject to
Yeshua, and that the husband is the head of the wife, and
the wife is to be subject to her husband (Eph.
5:22-33;
Col. 3:18;
1Pet. 3:1-6;
Titus 2:5).

The Bible also teaches that the husband
is to love his wife just as Mashiach also loved the miqra
and gave Himself up for her, and to treat her gently, “as a
weaker vessel” (Eph.
5:25-33;
Col. 3:19;
1Pet. 3:7).

The Bible teaches that a husband and wife
are to “become one flesh” (Gen
2:24;
Eph 5:31).

The Bible teaches that children are to be
obedient to their parents and honor them (Col.
3:20;
Eph. 6:1-3), but that fathers are not to exasperate
their children or provoke them to anger “but [are to]
nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
(Col.
3:21;
Eph. 6:4).

Parents are to instruct their children in
the Torah of God so that they “would themselves
arise and tell their own children, who could then put their
confidence in God, not forgetting God’s deeds, but obeying
his mitzvot. ” (Psalm
78:6-7)

We therefore commit that in all the teachings
and functions of this congregation, we will keep the family
foremost, that our families will be built on the sure
foundation, which is Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach and His Word.

Our Responsibility Toward the Body of
Mashiach

When speaking about the greatest of all
commandments, Yeshua said, “The most important is, ‘Sh'ma
Yisra'el, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI
echad [Hear, O Isra'el, the LORD our God,
the LORD is one], and you are to love ADONAI
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
understanding and with all your strength.’ The second is this:
‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other
mitzvah greater than these.” (Mark
12:28-31 CJB). Yeshua also said, “This is my command: that
you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you. No one
has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his
friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. …
This is what I command you: keep loving each other!” (John
15:12-17 CJB) We are commanded to fervently love each other
(1Pet. 1:22;
4:8-9;
1John 3:11,23; 4:7-12;
2John 1:5).

We are to “showtolerance for
oneanother in
love,
being diligent to
preserve the
unity of the
Spirit in the
bond of
peace.” (Eph.
4:1-6) We are to lay aside all falsehood and speak truth to
each other (Eph.
4:25; Col. 3:9) We are to be kind and tenderhearted to each
other (Eph.
4:32). We are to forgive each other as God in
Yeshua forgave us (Eph.
4:32;
Col. 3:12-15).

We are not to judge one another or to
put obstacles or stumbling blocks in each other’s way (Rom.
14:13). There are to be no divisions among us (1Cor.
12:25). We are not to “bite” one another (Gal.
5:13-16). We are not to become boastful, challenge
one another, or envy one another (Gal.
5:26). We are not to repay evil with evil (1Thess.
5:15). We are not to forsake our own assembling
together (Heb.
10:25). We are not to complain or speak against each
other (James
4:11; 5:9;
1Pet. 4:8-9).

Our Responsibility Toward the Lost

We believe that at His ascension, Yeshua
commissioned the eleven Shliachim (Apostles) to “Therefore go,
and make talmidim [disciples] of all nations, immersing them in
the name of HaAbba [the Father] and of HaBen [the Son], and of
Ruach HaKodesh [the Holy Spirit], teaching them to observe all
things that I commanded you.” (Matt.
28:16-20). He also told them, “But you will receive power
when Ruach HaKodesh has come upon you. You will be witnesses to
me in Yerushalayim, in all Yehudah and Shomron, and to the
uttermost parts of the earth” (Acts
1:8). We believe that commission was given directly to the
Apostles and that they literally fulfilled that commission prior
to their deaths before the end of the first century.

However, we believe that the principles of
our Lord’s teachings are clear and require us, as ambassadors
for Mashiach, to carry on the ministry of reconciliation (2Cor.
5:18-21) by availing ourselves of every opportunity to
present the Gospel of Yeshua HaMashiach to a lost and dying
world, “Go[ing] out into the highways and along the hedges, and
compel[ling] them to come in, that my house may be filled.” (Luke
14:23) As the lost are won to Mashiach, it is our
responsibility to make talmidim [disciples] of them, immerse
them, and teach them the teachings of our Lord and of His
shliachim, “for the equipping of the saints for the work of
service, to the building up of the body of Mashiach; until we
all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of
the stature which belongs to the fullness of Mashiach.” (Eph.
4:12-13)

Our Responsibility Toward Israel

The Bible teaches that Israel has been
elected by God out of all of the families of man to
be His chosen people, to serve as a light to the Gentiles and as
an example to the world of His love, compassion, providence, and
righteous judgment. Moreover, God chose Abraham and
his descendants to be the human family from which His own Son,
Yeshua HaMashiach (the Lord Jesus Christ) would be born after
the flesh, to be Israel’s Messiah and our Redeemer.

The Bible teaches that Israel fell from her
exalted position because of her repeated idolatry and her
corporate rejection of Messiah when He first appeared
[though tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of faithful Jews
gladly received Him then (Acts
21:20)], and so God chose to include the
Gentile nations in the call to be His Miqra and to serve as His
example to the world and to make Israel jealous (Rom.
11:11) so that as a nation she might awaken from her
spiritual slumber and acknowledge Yeshua HaMashiach as Lord and
God, and as Israel’s long-awaited Messiah. While we
believe that Ruach HaKodesh is now calling out tens of thousands
from all the tribes of Israel, we believe that the national
awakening will fully come under the ministry of God’s
144,000 sealed Israelite bond-servants during the Tribulation
period (Rev.
7).

We believe that God has made
numerous unilateral, unconditional, and irrevocable covenants
with the household of Avraham that have not yet been fulfilled,
and that because of His unchangeable nature He is faithful to
fulfill all His promises. We therefore accept as self-evident
that God is not yet finished with His chosen race
until such time as they are all again living in
fellowship with and obedience to Him. We believe that the
Gentiles are heirs to salvation and to the wonderful promises of
God only because God has
seen fit to adopt them into Abraham’s family, who alone are the
rightful heirs of those covenants (Romans
11).

Those who are Gentile “Christians”
therefore own a never-payable debt of gratitude to those who are
the sons of Avraham, Yitzhak, and Ya'akov after the flesh, and
they owe it to Israel and to Adonai
Yeshua to do all within
their power to lovingly lead Judah and Israel back into faith
and obedience.

Additionally, when Mashiach returns to
establish His earthly kingdom, all nations of the earth will be
judged by the way they have treated Israel (Matt.
25:31-46). So all the more do the Gentile nations have an
obligation to treat Israel righteously, for they are the
brethren of Yeshua HaMashiach.

We therefore believe that we have a
responsibility toward God to provide our
unconditional support to the Nation of Israel and her struggle
to regain the entire Promised Land (including all the territory
from the Nile River to the Euphrates River,
Genesis 15:18) as their eternal possession.

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